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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Long Island death metal outfit active since around 2015, contributing to the underground's brutalist tradition with releases on various compilation projects.
Death metal band from London, England, active since 2013. They deliver crushing, faith-destroying death metal from the English capital.
Cancerous Social Thoughts is a grindcore band from Asunción, Paraguay, formed in 2017 and released through Grinder Cirujano Records. Their 2017 full-length Distopía and 2021 split Grindkaos deal in themes of political unrest, social oppression, mass destruction, and anti-religion, delivered in the blasting, concise format typical of the genre. They are one of the few active grindcore acts documented from Paraguay's underground extreme metal scene.
Cancerous Social Thoughts is a grindcore band from Asunción, Paraguay, formed in 2017 and released through Grinder Cirujano Records. Their 2017 full-length Distopía and 2021 split Grindkaos deal in themes of political unrest, social oppression, mass destruction, and anti-religion, delivered in the blasting, concise format typical of the genre. They are one of the few active grindcore acts documented from Paraguay's underground extreme metal scene.
Death metal and grindcore band from Edinburgh, Scotland, active since 2009. They deliver filthy, grinding extremity from the Scottish capital.
Doom and stoner metal band from the Alpine foothills of San Giovanni Bianco in Bergamo province, formed in 2021. Cancervo conjures heavy, mountainous riffs from the Brembana Valley.
Death metal act from Vila Nova de Santo André on Portugal's Alentejo coast, active since 2010. Canchroid has spent over a decade delivering crushing death metal from southern Portugal.
Groove-thrash band from Barletta in Puglia, southern Italy, active since 2005. Cancrena — Italian for 'gangrene' — has delivered two decades of aggressive, riff-driven metal.
Death-groove act from Stavropol in the North Caucasus, formed in 2017. Cancroid channels rhythmically-driven extreme metal from southern Russia.
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